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TheIPW@TheIPW@lemmy.ml

Self-hosted analytics and the infrastructure cost of privacy

My blog has been up and running for a few months now and I wanted to have a better idea of what sort of visitor numbers I was getting but as it is a blog about FOSS, self-hosting and privacy I wasn’t just about to hand data to Google.

I managed to set up a self hosted instance of Rybbit but it was a bit heavier resource wise than other options I have looked at so I had to have a major overhaul in my Proxmox node layout!

unknownuniverse.uk/home-lab/privacy-analytics/
Terminal output from 'docker stats' showing CPU and memory usage for the Rybbit analytics container stack including ClickHouse, Postgres, and Redis.The Unknown UniverseI Added Analytics to the Blog!I’ve spent years preaching privacy, yet here I am installing a tracker. No, this isn’t a sellout, I just self-hosted Rybbit. Here is the transparent breakdown.
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